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- Apr 1
- 1 min
Scratch A4 Summer '24 - Submissions Open
Submissions are now open for the summer Scratch A4 until 25 May... Enter your < 1000 word story for the Summer '24 event on Saturday...
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- Mar 2
- 1 min
The Reverse Engineering series turns two!
Woah... that went quick! It was two years ago this month that Scratch Books published Reverse Engineering! To celebrate, we're offering...
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- Feb 10
- 18 min
‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce
Introduction by Darran Anderson One of the appeals of poetry is its ability to decelerate time until life appears as strange as it really...
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- Feb 3
- 16 min
'The Gentleman's Companion' by Machado de Assis
Introduction by James Young I first read Machado de Assis in 2006, when the teacher of the Português Para Estrangeiros class at Paraíba...
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- Jan 27
- 13 min
'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin
Introduction by Carrie Beth Esposito 'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin tells the story of a woman unable to burn letters to and from her lover...
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- Jan 20
- 9 min
'A Just Man In Sodom' by Caradoc Evans
Introduction by Joshua Jones I often find a certain comfort in the depraved. Like shining a torch under the bed and having a good...
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- Jan 13
- 3 min
'Monday or Tuesday' by Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Łukasz Drobnik Virginia Woolf’s “Monday or Tuesday”, the titular story from her 1921 collection, eludes categorisation....
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- Dec 16, 2023
- 33 min
'Fallmerayer the Stationmaster' by Joseph Roth
Introduction by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce Roth wrote this story in 1933, soon after he and his partner – Andrea Manga Bell – had fled Germany...
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- Dec 9, 2023
- 12 min
'America 1918' by Maria Messina
Introduction by Jayson Carcione This was the summer Sicily burned, another summer of lives lost in a graveyard sea – and I keep going...
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- Dec 3, 2023
- 1 min
Buy Scratch Books - Winter Sale!
For all friends and family interested in how fiction works, buy 'em the Reverse Engineering books... At a special 30% off, all December!...
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- Nov 25, 2023
- 28 min
'To Build A Fire' by Jack London
Introduction by Livi Michael ‘To Build a Fire’ Is a story about a man who sets out in the freezing Yukon winter, accompanied only by a...
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- Nov 18, 2023
- 10 min
'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Jacqueline Doyle Edgar Allan Poe insisted that every great short story focuses on a “single effect,” and that every word...
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- Nov 11, 2023
- 27 min
'The Inconsiderate Waiter' by J.M. Barrie
Introduction by Cath Barton The Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew Barrie was appointed a baronet by King George V in 1913....
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- Nov 4, 2023
- 8 min
'A Garden by the Sea' by Forrest Reid
Introduction by Chris Wright In his 1981 essay, Escaping from Belfast, V.S. Pritchett wrote at length about a forgotten Ulster writer by...
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- Oct 21, 2023
- 10 min
'The Lumber Room' by Saki
Introduction by Fiona McKay Many years ago, when I was in school, we had an anthology of short stories, Exploring English 1. It was my...
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- Oct 14, 2023
- 74 min
'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Introduction by Luca Serra I believe certain pieces of fiction find you when you most need it. This was the case for me with White...
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- Oct 7, 2023
- 19 min
'Laura Silver Bell' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Introduction by Rebekah King A young woman, demurely dressed, is looking wistfully away from the viewer at a sinister figure who holds...
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- Sep 30, 2023
- 3 min
'The Hill' from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Introduction by Stu Hennigan This is a real curio; a collection of free verse poems in which over two hundred people who have lived and...
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- Sep 1, 2023
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Pre-order THE POET & THE ECHO - Subscribers' Offer
Pre-orders are now open for The Poet & the Echo before its launch on 12th September. Touching and powerful stories written in response to...
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